Our Partners

The Viscardi Center

The Viscardi Center, a network of non-profit organizations, provides a lifespan of services that educate, employ, and empower people with disabilities. Its programs and services include Pre-K through high school education, school-to-work transition services, vocational training, career counseling and placement, and workforce diversification assistance to children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities, and businesses.

JetBlue

JetBlue is New York’s Hometown Airline®, and a leading carrier in Boston, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, Los Angeles (Long Beach), Orlando, and San Juan. JetBlue carries more than 40 million customers a year to 100+ cities in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America with an average of 1,000 daily flights. JetBlue is committed to growing a diverse talent pipeline by recruiting, hiring, and supporting individuals with disabilities.

About Us

New York Institute of Technology offers over 90 undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs in more than 50 fields of study, including computer science, data, and cybersecurity; biology and biomedical studies; architecture and design; engineering; health professions and medicine; IT and digital technologies; management; communications and marketing; education and counseling; and energy and sustainability. A nonprofit, independent, private, and nonsectarian institute of higher education, New York Tech welcomes more than 9,000 students worldwide. The university has campuses in New York City and Long Island, New York; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as programs around the world. New York Tech embraces its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, give all qualified students access to opportunity, and support research and scholarship that benefit the larger world. More than 100,000 alumni comprise an engaged network of doers, makers, and innovators prepared to change the world, solve 21st-century challenges, and reinvent the future.

Industry Support

Dreamteam Directors

Dreamteam Directors (Creative Advisors for Ready for Takeoff) is the award-winning husband-wife writer/director duo Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir, who are based in Los Angeles. They have collaborated with Coldplay, Mark Ruffalo, viral-sensation Lindsey Stirling, and Anthony Mackie to uplift and positively change the world through filmmaking.